Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.
There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical and emphasized wine as a romantic, historic beverage. Criticism and comparative tastings were eschewed for fear of offending the trade, which most writers depended upon for survival.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.